The dorsum surface is light gray-brown, with several gray spots and many thin longitudinal lines.

Close to the edges there is a grayish wide frame with several dark brown spots.

In the living cowries the mantle is well developed, quite grayish and almost transparent, with short papillae and external antennae.

This Arabian endemic species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Western Indian Ocean along Eritrea, Somalia and Pakistan.

During the day the living cowries are usually hidden in coral caves or beneath the reef block, as they fear the light.